or root to its proper elevation or accomplishment in the
Sanhedrim, and the congregation, already opened in the
preliminaries.

The second is taken out of Lacedaemon, as Lycurgus (for the
greater impression of his institutions upon the minds of his
citizens) pretended to have received the model of that
commonwealth from the oracle of Apollo at Delphos, the words
whereof are thus recorded by Plutarch in the life of that famous
legislator: "When thou shalt have divided the people into tribes
(which were six) and oboe (which were five in every tribe), thou
shalt constitute the Senate, consisting, with the two Kings, of
thirty councillors, who, according as occasion requires, shall
cause the congregation to be assembled between the bridge and the
river Gnacion, where the Senate shall propose to the people, and
dismiss them without suffering them to debate." The oboe were
lineages into which every tribe was divided, and in each tribe
there was another division containing all those of the same that
were of military age, which being called the mora, was subdivided
into troops and companies that were kept in perpetual discipline
under the command of a magistrate called the polemarch.

The third is taken out of the Commonwealth of Rome, or those
parts of it which are comprised in the first and second books of
Livy, where the people, according to the institution by Romulus,
are first divided into thirty curias or parishes, whereof he
elected, by three out of each curia, the Senate, which, from his
reign to that or Servius Tullius, proposed to the parishes or
parochial congregations; and these being called the Comitia
curiata, had the election of the kings, the confirmation of their